Wadi Milk Formation

Wadi Milk Formation Stratigraphic range: ?Albian - Cenomanian[1]
Type	Geological formation
Location
Country	Sudan

The Wadi Milk Formation is a geological formation in Sudan whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.^[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Ornithischians

Ornithischians of the Wadi Milk Formation
Taxa	Presence	Notes	Images
Genus: Euornithopoda[1] Indeterminate remains.[1]	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]		Ouranosaurus
Genus: Iguanodontia[1] Indeterminate remains.[1]	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]
Genus: Ornithopoda[1] Indeterminate remains.[1]	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]
Genus: cf. Ouranosaurus[1] cf. Ouranosaurus sp.[1]	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]

Saurischians

Sauropods of the Wadi Milk Formation
Taxa	Presence	Notes	Images
Family: Dicraeosauridae[1] Indeterminate remains.[1]	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]		Example of some Dicraeosaurids.
Genus: Lithostrotia[1] Indeterminate remains.[1]	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]	"(= Titanosauridae indet.)"[1]

Theropods of the Wadi Milk Formation
Taxa	Presence	Notes	Images
Genus: Bahariasaurus[1] Bahariasaurus sp.[1]	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]		Carcharodontosaurus Carcharodontosaurus
Family: Carcharodontosauridae[1] Indeterminate remains.[1]	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]
Genus: Carcharodontosaurus[1]	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]
Genus: Dromaeosauridae[1] Indeterminate remains.[1]	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]
Genus: Theropoda[1] Indeterminate remains.[1]	Geographically present in Northern Province, Sudan.[1]

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Sudan

References

1. Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous, Africa)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 604-605. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.